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No. 330,697. Patented Nov. 17, 1885.

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WILLIAM E. HARRIS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BRASS FOR ROLLING-MILLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,697, dated November17, 1885.

Application filed May 8, 1885. Serial No. 164,859.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. HARRIS, of the city of St. Louis, in theState of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inMeans for-Oooling Bearings or Brasses for Journals, of which thefollowingjs a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and inwhich- Figure l is an end view of a pair of rollingmill rolls having myinvention applied to the brasses or bearings thereof, each section orplate of the brass or bearing having a pipe embedded in and independentof any other section or plate, as hereinafter described. Figs. 2, 3, 4,5, 6, and 7 are perspective views of different forms of plates orsections to which my invention is applicable. Fig. 8 is a top viewshowing the application of a pair of my looped pipes to a single sectionor plate.

My invention is a means for cooling each brass or plate independently ofthe others, and relates to those @oling devices in which pipes arecombined with the brasses or bearings for carrying cooling-liquidthrough them. As heretofore constructed, it has been thecustom to eithercast a bearing with passages through it for the cooling-liquid, or casta whole bearing with a coil of pipe within it, and then divide thebearing and coil lengthwise of the journal-opening to form the separablemembers, or cast upper and lower members of a bearing with passagesconnected at the faces by short pipe-sections. The firstmentionedconstruction necessitates careful casting and the careful connection ofthe supply-pipes with the passages. In the second and thirdconstructions mentioned the passages cross the faces of the two membersand require very careful packing at the faces. In all three devicesreferred to the construction is not so simple as that which forms thesubject of the present invention.

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mit the substitution of a worn plate or section by a new one, so as touse the same coolingpipe with a number of plates or sections.

A represents one end of a frame of a pair of rolling-mill rolls, B. 0represents the top and bottom plates or sections of brasses or bearings,and D the side plates or sections.

I prefer to form each brass section or bearing-plate with U-shapedgrooves or recesses O, to receive U-shaped cooling-pipes'I, (see Figs.2, 3, 4, and 8;) or the plates or sections may be cast with the pipeswithin them, and extending beyond the plates or sections, as shown inFigs. 5, 6, and 7. The pipes may all be connected with a singlesupply-pipe, J, (see Fig. 1,) and the cooling liquid or water afterpassing through them may be discharged onto the ground.

InFigs. 2 and 6 ordinary sections are shown, the recess being shown inFig. 2 and the section cast around the pipe in Fig. 6. In Figs. 3 and 7sections with strengthening central projections, I, are shown, and inFigs. 4 and 5 side sections are shown.

In Fig. 8 two pipes are shown in one section, which may be used whendesirable.

In my construction there is no chance for leakage, so that water doesnot come in contact with the journals, which would result in washing offthe grease and depositing lime, which latter is injurious to thejournals and brasses, causing them to wear away quickly.

My construction is applicable to all kinds of rolling-mills-such assheet-iron mills, steelmills, tin-plate mills, copperplate mills,guidemills, wire-mills, 850.

The bearings may be made of brass, (from which the well-known term ofbrasses is derived,) or they may be made of bronze, Babbitt, or othermetal.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim asnewtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A brass section or bearing-plate having a U-shaped pipe embeddedtherein, and extending in line with the j ournal-recess through one sideof the brass section or bearing-plate, substantially as set forth.

2. A brass section cast with a groove or recess, 0, and provided with apipe, I, occupying said groove, the pipe and section being groove orrecess, 0, and a U-shaped pipe, I, separable, substantially as setforth.

I occupying the groove 'and separable there- 3. Abrass section cast witha projection, I, from, substantially as set forth. having a groove orrecess, 0, and a pipe, 1,

WILLIAM E. HARRIS. 5 occupying said groove, substantially as set Inpresence of- I forth.

GEO. H. KNIGHT, SAML. KNIGHT.

4. A brass section, 0, cast with a U-shaped

